Captain Train sells tickets for numerous train operators across Europe.

Stations - A Database of European Train Stations

This repository contains the information Captain Train uses to identify stations across the diverse systems of the train operators.

If you want to contribute to this database, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

Licence

The file stations.csv is distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL) licence, see LICENCE.txt. In short, any modification to this data source must be published.

Data sources include OpenStreetMap, SNCF OpenData, and GeoNames all released under ODbL or compatible licences; and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.

The Data

The file stations.csv contains all our data representing train stations. The file is UTF-8 encoded text file and Comma Separated Value (CSV) formatted – although a semi-colon ; is used to delimitate fields.

Columns

Column Name	Notes
id	Internal unique identifier.
name	Name of the station as it is locally known; see info_* for translations.
slug	Guaranteed to be unique across all the suggestable stations; see is_suggestable.
uic	The UIC code of the station.
uic8_sncf	SNCF sometimes uses an UIC code with 8 digits instead of 7. The last digit is a checksum.
longitude	Coordinates as decimal value.
latitude	Coordinates as decimal value.
parent_station_id	A station can belong to a meta station whose id is this value, i.e. Paris Gare d’Austerlitz belongs to the metastation Paris.
is_city	This value is unreliable.
country	2 letters, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
is_main_station	This value is unreliable.
time_zone	Continent/Country ISO codes.
is_suggestable	Can the user input this station.
sncf_self_service_machine	Presence of a SNCF self-service machine at the station.
same_as	Some systems allow stations to be split in two, with two id values. If provided, the station identified by the given value should be considered as the actual station.

Operator Specific

Operator specific columns contain identifiers and values specific to the operator. Columns are prefixed with a name unique to the operator.

Column Name	Notes
*_id	id of the station as it is known by the carrier.
*_is_enabled	Can a ticket be booked to/from the station through that carrier?
sncf_id
sncf_is_enabled
idtgv_id
idtgv_is_enabled
db_id
db_is_enabled
hkx_id
hkx_is_enabled
busbud_id
busbud_is_enabled
ouigo_id
ouigo_is_enabled
trenitalia_id
trenitalia_is_enabled
ntv_id
ntv_is_enabled

Internationalisation

Language specific info columns contain translations of the station name. The language used is suffixed as an ISO 639-1:2002 code.

Column Name	Notes
info:*	Extra information that is useful in the specific language.
info:fr
info:en
info:de
info:it

Tests

bundle install
ruby test_data.rb